Storm-collar.



PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

S. S. ALEXANDER.

STORM COLLAR.

APPLIOATION rum) DEO.21,1904.

WITNESSES flTTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed December 21, 1904. Serial No. 237,790-

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SOLOMON S. ALEXAN- DER, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Storm-Collars, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of stormcollars which are removable from the coat.

The object of this invention is to provide a storm-collar which shall be applicable to and removable from the coat in a most expeditious and convenient manner and capable of sustaining itself in any desired position on the wearer thereof without requiring buttonholes and buttons, or hooks and eyes, or other fastening devices which render the attachment and detachment of the storm-col lar inconvenient, slow, and tedious andincrease the cost of manufacture of the stormcollar and in many cases cause annoyance to the person wearing the storm-collar, owing to the buttons pressing on the wearer.

I attain the aforesaid object by the improved construction of the storm-collar as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view of my improved storm-collar folded down onto the exterior of the coat shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a side view of said storm-collar in its erect position, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line X X in Fig. 1.

A represents the storm-collar, which is composed of two layers of heavy cloth united by rows of stitches, as indicated in dotted lines Z Z. Said collar is formed with laterallyextended shoulder-covers A A and is provided with a broad imperforate and evensurfaced supporting-base b, which is formed separate from the collar and sewed at its top edge to the bottom edge of the collar, as represented by dotted lines Z Z. The base extends beyond the ends of the collar A and is formed with flaps d d on the said extensions. To allow these flaps to be folded onto the exterior of the permanently-attached la els ff of the coat and conceal the said lape s so as to cause the flaps d d to present the appearance of being part of the coat without disturbing the collar A from either its erect or its folded position, I partly separate the flaps porting-base b and its end extensions under the neck and breast portions of the coat and is retained in its said position by the frictional hold of the inner side of the coat bearing upon said supporting-base and its end exten- 810118.

The collar A and flaps d d are foldable outward on the crease of the collar 0 and lapels f f of the coat and down onto the exterior of said parts and completely conceal the same, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The frictional hold of the inner side of the coat bearing on the supporting-base b and its end extension retains the storm-collar on the coat without requiring buttons and buttonholes, or hooks and eyes, or other extra attaching devices the use of which render the attaching of the storm-collar to the coat slow, inconvenient, and tedious, and are otherwise objectionable for the reasons heretofore stated. The detachment ofthe storm-collar is accomplished by simply drawing it out from under the coat.

, What I claim is- A storm-collar provided with an imperforate and even-surfaced broad supporting-base formed separate from the collar, the collar and the base being sewed together on a line with the fold of the collar, said base extending beyond the ends of the collar and formed with integral laterally-extending flaps, said flaps being sewed to the collar near their base and separated from the collar from near the bases of the flaps to the points thereof, the whole being so constructed as to be sustained on the wearer by frictional adhesion between the coat and the base, substantially as described.

SOLOMON s. ALEXANDER. [a 5.]

Witnesses:

J. J. LAASS, L. H. FULMER. 

